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  • Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights

    Edited by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, John Cerone, Stéphanie Lagoutte ...
    Soft law increasingly shapes and impacts the content of international law in multiple ways, from being a first step in a norm-making process to providing detailed rules and technical standards required for the interpretation and the implementation of treaties. This is especially true in the area of human rights. While relatively few human rights treaties have been adopted at the UN level in the ... Read more

    $122.39 USD

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  • In Search of A Better World

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    by Payam Akhavan, PhD ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times.Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that ... Read more

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  • The Deserter's Tale

    The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq

    by Joshua Key ...
    " Apocalypse Now insanity . . . if this is what one soldier saw in seven months, imagine the sum total of the inhumanity being perpetuated in Iraq" ( Toronto Star).The first memoir from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid and damning indictment of the American military campaign, The Deserter's Tale is "destined to become part of the literature of the Iraq war . . . a ... Read more

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  • Ecosocialism

    A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe

    by Michael Löwy ...
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  • Freedom's Battle

    The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

    by Gary J. Bass ...
    This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action by exposing them to distant atrocities. Wildly ... Read more

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  • International Human Rights Law in Africa

    by Frans Viljoen ...
    This book provides a comprehensive and analytical overview of human rights law in Africa. It examines the institutions, norms, and processes for human rights realization provided for under the United Nations system, the African Union, and sub-regional economic communitites in Africa, and explores their relationship with the national legal systems of African states. Since the establishment of the ... Read more

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  • Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights - Effects and Implementation

    by Anja Seibert-Fohr, Mark E. Villiger ...
    This volume deals with the domestic effects of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights as a challenge to the various levels of legal orders in Europe. The starting point is the divergent impact of the ECtHR’s jurisdiction within the Convention States. The volume seeks new methods of orientation at the various legal levels, given the fact that the Strasbourg case law is increasingly ... Read more

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  • After Abu Ghraib

    Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East

    by Shadi Mokhtari ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This book traverses three pivotal human rights struggles of the post-September 11th era: the American human rights campaign to challenge the Bush administration's 'War on Terror' torture and detention policies, Middle Eastern efforts to challenge American human rights practices (reversing the traditional West to East flow of human rights mobilizations and discourses) and Middle Eastern attempts to ... Read more

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  • Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction

    by Beth Gaze, Belinda Smith ...
    Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction explores four decades of anti-discrimination laws in Australia. Beth Gaze and Belinda Smith argue that effective laws protecting against and deterring discrimination are vital for a fair future, and emphasise the theoretical and social contexts that underpin this area of the law. The text is divided into three sections: the first ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Human Rights

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    by Michael J. Perry ...
    Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J. Perry's new book is a personal and scholarly exploration of the idea of human rights. Perry is one of our nation's leading authorities on the relation of morality, including religious morality, to politics and law. He seeks, in this book, to disentangle the complex idea of human rights by way of four probing and interrelated essays. * The initial ... Read more

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  • Exploiting Turkana

    Robbing the cradle of mankind

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    “Almost everything in Turkana is an emergency” Peter Lokoel, Deputy Govenor Turkana Modernity versus tradition; pressure on people and cultures; the potential for environmental catastrophe and private enterprises laying claim to the planet’s natural resources all challenge Turkana. This is one of the world’s “poorest” places, which just happens to sit atop what is believed to be one of the richest ... Read more

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